Roman Temple Discovered in Tuscany

One of the advantages of having a blog is that you don't have to worry about advertising space and you can blow pictures up as large as you'd like.

Here is a picture garnered from adnkronos.com. I'm sorry it's blurry but that's a result of the low pix density of the original.

In any case, this beauty is from a temple discovery in Tuscany.

A Roman temple dating from the fourth century AD was discovered inside the Maremma Park, located in the central Italian region of Tuscany. The rectangular-shaped temple was found by a group of archaeologists after three months of work about three kilometres from the beach of Marina di Alberese, in the province of Grosseto.

The rectangular-shaped structure measures 11.5 metres by 6.5 metres and was built using a Roman-building technique called 'opus testaceum'. A loose stone foundation covered by bricks which are then covered in slabs of marble.

According to archaeologists, the temple suggests there was once an important Roman settlement in the area, which served as a trading port that handled goods coming from Africa and from the entire Mediterranean basin.

Hopefully more images will be forthcoming soon.